Wednesday, 24 October 2012

How long Therapy take

How long does therapy take?

The length of your therapy
depends on your therapeutic goals. In general, the more specific your goals
are, the less time the therapy takes. For example, if you seek therapy because
you have a specific phobia, such as flying, or test taking, therapy tends to
last anywhere from a few weeks to a few months.

On the other hand, long-term therapy is better suited to addressing more subtle
emotional issues, such as long standing dissatisfaction with different areas of
your life. Long-term therapy goes deeper into the origins of unwanted feelings
and behaviors, and can help you to change undesirable patterns of thinking,
feeling and acting. Long-term therapy is less structured than short-term, and
it can be very effective in alleviating emotional distress and promoting
change.